Uttarayan is among the biggest festivals in Gujarat. Revellers mark the festival with kite-flying. But kite-flying has been injuring thousands of birds every year, prompting a state government initiative Karuna Abhiyan that kicked off in 2017. This year too, the state government launched the nine-day campaign on January 12.
Instead of designing buildings, Esha Munshi puts her aesthetic skills to use by collecting, photographing, measuring and cataloguing the wings and feathers of India's more than 1,300 bird species.
A volunteer scoops up a fledgling kite lying nearly immobile on a scorching Indian sidewalk as the relentless sun beats down on its feathers one of countless birds struggling to endure an unbearable…